Developers are the worst at naming things. This is a well known fact.

good observation. twitch has even more loons.

mostly agree but the below average try hard is also the one introducing the most bugs so I'm torn on this.

That very much depends on the workplace. I was let go once for being 'slightly below average', because I kept foolishly spending the time to fix things in ways that didn't result in more bugs.

I literally inherited a dev once that was so bad we vastly improved velocity once he left. Every couple of months we fixed a weird bug in the code he wrote and laughed about it. The middle manager loved him because we was very eager to work and always around

Are those people in an environment where they need to close tickets at any cost or else?

I've seen less capable people changing from slightly productive to incredibly destructive by changing that one variable.

You aren't an outlier. Most of us got into coding because we enjoyed coding, not writing documentation that talks about coding.

I enjoyed coding because of what it enabled me to _do_.

I can now do more with AI tooling so I enjoy that more.

I know lots of you enjoy coding for its own sake, more power to you. But it's no surprise to me that many (most?) view it as a means to an end.

It feels like I am these days, with the amount of posts on here about how LLM-powered programming is the future and everyone should be doing it and it will make us all 10x developers

move fast and break things culture

I've got one anecdote: friend needed Live Captions for a translating job and had to get copilot+ PC just for that.

What software are they using for that, and how did they know ahead of time that the software would use their NPU?

No backup camera will let you observe the nail the wind blew close to your tire to puncture it soon as you move the car. Perhaps it is best if I just stay home.

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